Monthly Archives: September 2011

VLC 1.1.12 will be released within the next week. Most importantly, it includes a fix for the optical audio output (S/PDIF) on OS X Lion, so you can enjoy your multi-channel movies again in a proper way. Additionally, VLC no longer crashes when using the Japanese locale.

To give it a try, feel free to fetch a pre-release build from nightlies.videolan.org. Please note that these pre-release builds require Mac OS X 10.6 or later. The actual release still supports OS X 10.5 Leopard of course.

Similar to the playlist view on Windows and Linux, VLC for Mac will get a sidebar in version 1.2. This way, you can easily access your media folders and media shared on the local network and the internet. Future versions will evolve to a full media library.

That’s what it looks like so far:

More media aggregators will be added until the release. As you would expect, of course you can hide this sidebar if you just need a playlist without any clutter.

about.me

Lead Developer on VLC media player for Mac and iOS

Contributor to the VideoLAN project since early 2003. Secretary of the VideoLAN non-profit organization.

VLC media player's 2.0 Mac Interface is what I spent most of 2011's summer on. Nowadays, I somewhat shifted my attendance to mobile and embedded devices - still, VLC media player for Mac is being actively developed and will include major improvements and new features. I redeveloped VLC for iOS from scratch in 2013 and lead its further development. Other pet projects include an Objective-C framework called VLCKit, a fork of a UPnP discovery library as well as browser plugins for the Mac.

You can find information about future features and current development regarding VLC for Apple platforms on my blog.

While being based in Germany's north, you can frequently find me at various FLOSS and geek events throughout the world, such as SCALE in Los Angeles, CA, FISL in Porto Alegre, Brazil, OSDC in Australia, FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, or the VideoLAN Dev Days in Paris, France.

In real life, I'm a medic and currently work full-time for the French consulting company VideoLabs SAS.